LOUISIANA, LAND OF PERPETUAL ROMANCE
Photograph by Ewing Galloway
THE "AMY IIEWES" ON THE BAYOU TECIIE
Along this winding, slow-flowing waterway in the Acadian region the old-fashioned steamboat
runs on schedule and stops at plantation landings to oblige passengers and small shippers.
ana and partly in Texas.
It was here
that the first attempt in the United States
was made to pump oil from the bed of a
lake.
While spectacular gushers have focused
popular attention in recent times upon
oil-producing areas in other parts of the
United States, some two hundred wells
in the Caddo-Shreveport district continue
to chug away profitably year after year,
much of their output being pumped ashore
through a network of pipe lines which
run beneath the surface of the lake.
SHREVEPORT IS BUILDING AMERICA'S
LARGEST AIRPORT
But just now Shreveport is less inter
ested in her oil wells and in her great
window-glass factory, with its endless rib
bon of glass, seven feet wide, spinning out
a quarter of a million square feet every
24 hours, than in the nascent "largest and
most modern flying field in the world."
Her citizens are buying 22,000 acres of
choice river-plantation land three and a
half miles east of the city, which is to be
presented to the Federal Government, and
here the United States Air Corps will
establish its Third Attack Wing.
The initial investment of the War De
partment at this field will be $8,ooo,ooo,
most of which will go to build a virtual
city on the site. The field itself will have
a landing area three miles long in the
direction of the prevailing winds and more
than a mile and a half wide, with an addi
tional mile on either end for landings if
necessary. Fifty pursuit planes, fifty-two
attack planes, six observation, and two
cargo planes will constitute the Army's
439